Marc Polmans and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT B. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc Polmans who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.82
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
This will be the 3rd time that Marc Polmans and Geoffrey Blancaneaux clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Polmans won 7-6(3) 6-2 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in 2022.
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-35 | 32-23 | 14-9 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-13 | 14-12 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-28 | 1-6 | 8-13 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 158, Polmans got to the 2nd round after defeating Andrew Fenty 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Fenty (6-2 7-5). During the match, Polmans scored 78 points vs Fenty’s 65. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Polmans fired 5 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Marc Polmans lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Polmans put 63% of his first serves in, winning 75% (30/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (8/23) on the 2nd serve. Polmans broke Fenty 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Polmans has good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (302-234). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Polmans has a compiled 11-15 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Marc’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Canberra,the Guangzhou Challenger and the Sydney Challenger.
Polmans has an overall 45-32 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 6-5 | 6-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-37 | 7-10 | 14-18 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-38 | 17-10 | 14-15 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-31 | 8-6 | 17-19 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 23-17 | 11-3 | 5-9 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 244, Blancaneaux reached the 2nd round after defeating Andres Martin 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Blancaneaux had a good straight sets win against Martin (6-4 6-4). During the match Blancaneaux scored 80 points vs Martin’s 68. Blancaneaux was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Blancaneaux scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Geoffrey Blancaneaux conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 14 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 65% of his first serves in, winning 64% (32/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 74% (20/27) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Martin twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Blancaneaux’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Tunis Challenger.
Blancaneaux has a composed 27-34 win-loss record in 2023, 8-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Geoffrey has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Polmans | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 78-65 | 80-68 |
| Total Points | 143 | 148 |
| Winners | 30 | 32 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Polmans and Blancaneaux played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Polmans and Blancaneaux have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). Marc scored 30 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The French player bagged 32 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Polmans | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 50/77 |
| %1st in | 63% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 32/50 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 8/23 | 20/27 |
| %2nd pts | 35% | 74% |
Polmans managed to score 5 aces . Blancaneaux managed to score 1 ace . Polmans won 75% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 35% of the points. On the other side, Blancaneaux won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Polmans | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/14 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 36% | 29% |
| Conceded | 5 | 14 |
| Saved | 3 | 14 |
| % Saved | 60% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Marc broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Polmans dropped his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Blancaneaux broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Blancaneaux was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 14 break points.
| Polmans | |||
| R1 Fenty |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 78-65 | 78-65 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 30/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/23 | 8/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 35% | 35% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Blancaneaux | |||
| R1 Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 80-68 | 80-68 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 50/77 | 50/77 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 32/50 | 32/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/27 | 20/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 14/14 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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